The Angels’ two-way phenom is launching home runs and unleashing nasty stuff on the mound this spring training, raising the hype to levels unseen since his debut
With a multidisciplinary approach cutting across systems biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology and other disciplines, researchers analyzed massive amounts of genome sequence data generated from more than 400 samples. They investigated the temporal and combinatorial patterns in which mutations accumulated in both organisms over 1,000 generations, mapped lineages through high resolution single cell sequencing, and characterized the fitness and cooperativity of pairings of their individual isolates.
The team uncovered striking evidence that mutations accumulated during evolution generate positive genetic interactions among rare individuals of a microbial community. These genetic interactions increase cooperativity within these rare microbial assemblages, enabling their persistence at very low frequency within a larger productive population. In addition, researchers discovered one of the first examples of parallel evolution, i.e., accumulation of mutations in similar genes across independently evolving populations, underlying the evolution of both organisms in a mutualistic community.
… The project-based lessons, or curricula, used in all four of the evaluations were developed by academic experts at universities over many years and teachers were extensively trained and coached to implement them properly. Students worked on multi-stage projects over an extended period of time throughout a unit of study. In some cases, the lessons were almost scripted and specified exactly which projects students should select along with which tasks students should complete along the way, not leaving those choices entirely up to students or their teachers. Limiting choice helped to make sure students covered the content they otherwise would have learned through lectures, textbooks and worksheets.
For example, in a sixth grade science unit on energy, students worked in groups to design a device that controls thermal energy transfer to keep something warm. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device. For the final product, each student submitted an individual patent application for their group’s device, explaining how it worked and what they learned.
This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. The students not only scored 11 percentage points higher on a science assessment but also performed 8 to 18 percentage points better on state math and reading tests than similar students who learned science the traditional way.
You may have read our blog on developing individual resilience in elite sports. But for those who play in team sports, it’s important not only for each individual member of the team to be resilient, but also for the team as a whole to have resilience.
Developing team resilience is a very different task, because the team as a whole may face different challenges to those experienced individually. So, the team needs resources and skills to protect them from the negative effects of stressors they encounter together. Recent research has outlined some practical ways to develop team resilience in elite sports.
The research found that when teams adopted these practices, team members found the performance of the team to improve, as well as team members’ well-being. So, how do we develop team resilience in elite sport?
… For Ding [Shizhong], sci-tech innovation will be a key part of the company’s future plans.
Ding suggests that the government should encourage sci-tech innovation in winter sports industry. Anta has also been focusing on international cooperation in recent years, and Ding thinks the cooperation will be positive to his company and China’s sports industry.
“The 2022 Winter Olympics is coming and the sport consumption is upgrading, so our sports industry, especially the winner sports industry, is growing fast,” he said.
For another Chinese sports industry giant Shandong Mount Tai Sports Industry Group, sci-tech innovation is also important.
“The development of our sports rely on technology,” said Bian Zhiliang the Chairman of the Mount Tai Sports. “And sci-tech innovation is the power for sports industry.”
Technology has played an integral role in evolving the sports industry for years. These innovations and advancements have not only become more prevalent and discussed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but they have also become a necessity.
As the backbone behind everything from fan engagement to esports, sports betting and wearables, some experts estimate the sports tech sector will reach $30 billion by 2024.
In an effort to support this exponentially growing market, leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners and InStudio Ventures teamed up to create The Draft, a U.S.-based seed and venture capital fund focusing on sports tech.
When sports shut down at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, it wasn’t clear whether there would be innovation in the sports world at all in that moment. But those fears quickly proved unfounded as leagues, teams, and companies which participate in the ecosystem rose to the occasion to develop novel ways to return to play and support the fans who needed the joy and excitement that live competition plays in their lives.
Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Nest can be used to monitor heart rhythms without physical contact as effectively as an electrocardiogram, according to research from the University of Washington published in Communications Biology.
The researchers created a proof-of-concept system where their self-supervised machine learning algorithm can turn smart speakers into short-range sonar devices that measures heart rate and inter-beat intervals for both regular and irregular rhythms.
“Heart rhythm disorders are actually more common than some other well-known heart conditions. Cardiac arrhythmias can cause major morbidities such as strokes, but can be highly unpredictable in occurrence, and thus difficult to diagnose,” said the study’s senior co-author Dr. Arun Sridhar, assistant professor of cardiology at the UW School of Medicine, in a statement.
It’s the predictable rhythm of sports that draws us in.
Not so much the results of the games themselves as the steady cadence of the seasons — the cutting down of nets and hoisting of trophies, the pregame hype and postgame deconstructions, the trade talk and injury crises that envelop each passing year with the regularity of an atomic clock.
So, when two NBA basketball teams were hastily sent back to their locker rooms, not to return, after pregame introductions on March 11, 2020, and, then, a day later, when two college basketball teams walked off the floor at halftime and also didn’t come back — “Game Ppd, pandemic” — it was a shock to the system.
Player X is having a hard time. “I never thought I would be doing an interview like this,” he says. “But yeah, this season hasn’t been easy.”
Player X is still on his entry-level NHL contract. He plays for a United States-based team but is from another country and is unsure when he can see his family again. He is renting a condo and admits the decorations are a little sparse. During training camp, he began struggling to fall asleep and noticed himself getting irritated on FaceTime calls with his parents or girlfriend — sometimes even letting calls go unanswered, which is unusual for him.
Going to the rink and being able to skate always felt awesome, he explains.
“But I started dreading going home, all that time alone,” he says. He figured once the season got going, it would get better. It didn’t. He thought his team’s first road trip would be a distraction. It wasn’t.
The NHL and the NHL Players Association are not currently tracking which players, or how many, have received COVID-19 vaccinations.
“We have not sought player or club reporting to this point,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN on Tuesday.
Don Fehr, executive director of the NHLPA, said there is no chronicle of which players have received the vaccine. An NHL agent told ESPN that, to his knowledge, there has been no outreach from the NHLPA to generally tabulate how many players have been vaccinated, either.
The Japanese government has decided to exclude overseas spectators from attending this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, officials with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday.
The government and the Japanese organizing committee of the games are expected to hold a remote meeting with the International Olympic Committee and two other bodies possibly next week to make a formal decision on the issue of overseas visitors.
The government has concluded that welcoming fans from abroad is not possible given concerns among the Japanese public over the coronavirus and the fact that more contagious variants have been detected in many countries, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have named Katerina Wu as data scientist in the team’s hockey operations department, it was announced today by general manager Ron Hextall.
Wu, 22, will design and implement new statistics to evaluate player and team performance. She will report to Sam Ventura, the Penguins’ director of hockey operations and hockey research, while also working closely with Nick Citrone, who has been promoted to senior data scientist of hockey and business operations.
Cutting the Premier League from 20 teams would be one way to accommodate an expanded Champions League format, according to Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli.
The Italian also chairs the influential European Club Association (ECA), which gave its approval to Uefa proposals for a new-look continental competition to begin in 2024 with 36 instead of 32 clubs.